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We really need a volunteer "editor" feature

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OK, after reading another very good story with no quotation marks and 4" spacing between paragraphs I wanted to propose that lush consider adding a volunteer editor system. The idea is this:

For each logged in member you can click edit on a story. This makes a copy that you can edit in your list of edited documents. If you finish, you "publish" it back to the author for approval. If the author approves it is goes live (maybe with a list of editors at the bottom or something to give credit).

There might need to be a way to allow approval if the author never logs on again (like maybe a button saying "Ghost edited this story...read the edited version here") after 30 or so days.

Also a rating system for editors (like the forum "ratings") could be used to rank editors (helping authors who are not sure if the edits are an improvement or not make a decision based upon editor rank)

I know this isn't trivial to implement (I'm a programmer), but, boy it would sure help the quality of the stories a whole lot.
Interesting idea. I think a lot of authors would get a bit put out by that setup. I can see merit in some of the ideas though.

We do actually have 8 volunteer editors already, and each story (for at least 6 months now) is verified for quality, usually within 24 hours of it going up on site.

Can you pm me the story and I'll see if it has been passed by a moderator yet. Older ones are still to be sifted through - there are over 4000 stories now so it's taking a while.
I’m guilty of that I think… I’m sorry!
I messed up on one of my stories and NICOLA helped me out. I think they do a pretty good job. Sure helped me.
That was nice Stevie.
Dbarclay kindly edited my first story - I believe there were few paragraphs, bad punctuation and poor grammer...
DB's good at that and he shows no mercy.
This is what the "Ask the Author" section is for, anyone needing help with their story, please post in there.